Two-day festival of 'new music' for Wollongong
Sep 08, 2004
Sonic Connections -- a celebration of new music, new musical instrument design and new tuning systems -- begins on Friday (September 10) at the University of Wollongong's Faculty of Creative Arts. Students, staff and the public will be able to witness cutting edge audio research while listening to new and exciting compositions. The festivities include free concerts of new music in alternative tuning systems, new music for purpose-built instruments and electronic systems, and new applications of spatialised audio. There will be percussionists playing tuned wineglasses in a new work by Amanda Cole, a purpose-built guitar played by Christiaan van der Vyver and new interactive electronic instruments, purpose-built by Mark Havryliv and Warren Summers. The festivities will feature a mobile sound installation that combines Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) instruments and satellite tracking technology devised by this year's Artist-in-Residence at Creative Arts, Iain Mott. Iain is a sound artist working in the field of computer-based, interactive installation, which examines the physical relationships of participants with sound. His work has been presented nationally and internationally at exhibitions and he was the 1999-2000 Artist in Residence at the CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences. The two-day festival will also include a concert at the Wollongong Town Hall featuring the Illawarra Choral Society and the Steel City Strings, directed by Houston Dunleavy. The final concert for Sonic Connections takes place on Saturday at 4.30pm and will feature one of the earliest electronic music machines built by Percy Grainger. Sonic Connections officially begins at 1.30pm on Friday September 10 and finishes at 6pm on Saturday September 11. For further information: see the website: Sonic Connections Media enquiries: contact the convener of Sonic Connections, Dr Greg Schiemer, on 4221 3584 or 4221 5853, email: greg_schiemer@uow.edu.au Note: Iain Mott can be contacted via e-mail: info@reverberant.com -RP
For more information, contact:
media@uow.edu.au
University of Wollongong
Ph: (02) 4221 5942; fax (02) 4221 3128
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